APIZACO, Mexico — Greyssi Venegas devours her first meal in three days at a Mexican shelter near the railroad where migrants risk their lives clinging to freight trains on their grueling journey north to the United States.
An unexpected pregnancy has complicated her already tortuous trip from Honduras by rail, road and on foot with her seven-year-old son Eduardo.
“Yesterday I felt ill. I didn’t want to eat. So I asked for a pregnancy test,” said the 23-year-old, who has a cough and dark circles around her eyes from fatigue.
Venegas scraped together around $100 for her second attempt to reach the United States in three years, but the money had already run out by the time sh…
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